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    “Don’t you see, Harry? We’re the same, you and I,” Tom whispers softly, grabbing Harry’s wrist. Tom strokes the thin skin, causing Harry to look at him. If he could, Tom would pluck those eyes out so they wouldn’t look at anyone else.

    “No, I don’t think so,” Harry protests. The boy’s eyes stray to the discarded stones, the stones Tom almost used to kill those children. Displeasure seers through him at the lack of attention. Tom taps his pulse point with his thumb, coaxing Harry’s eyes back to him.

    “Of course we are, and we need each other.” It’s a lie, but it comes out more sincere than Tom ever imagined. Harry inclines his head, sizing up the truth of Tom’s declaration for himself.

    “Okay, sure,” the boy decides suddenly.

    Harry Potter was his.

    Tom Riddle meets Harry Potter at Wool's Orphanage where he immediately becomes a thorn in his side. Upon the discovery that Harry was like him, Tom decides he cannot and will not let Harry go. Even Harry's endless complaints and inevitable devastation if he ever found out Tom's plans cannot stop him from pursuing political domination.

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    08 Dec 2025

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    Part One (OotP) complete.

    Her remains exhumed as part of Voldemort's grotesque resurrection ritual, Lily Potter is inadvertently brought back to life by unknown magic. She is twenty-one, a widow, and mother to a rebellious teenage boy. Bafflingly, her ex-best friend, Severus Snape, is said to have worked tirelessly to protect her son over the years, yet wants nothing to do with her. For his part, Harry Potter, at first overjoyed to have his mother back alive, begins to chafe under her authority and worry she has feelings for the teacher he so despises.

    Part Two (HBP + DH) in the works.

    After a dramatic summer, Harry vows to focus on Dumbledore’s lessons, not his mother’s love life. Try as he might, he cannot ignore Snape’s increasingly suspicious behavior: covering for Malfoy, pathetically fawning over Lily, and pretending he doesn’t hate Harry. Lily throws herself into teaching and recruitment efforts but frets over Severus and his refusal to disclose the details of the burden Dumbledore has placed on his shoulders.

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    14 May 2025

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    King Uther Pendragon fears a magical uprising threatens to overthrow Camelot, so he sends Prince Arthur on a quest to find the legendary Cup of Life. But Arthur’s journey takes an unexpected turn when he rescues Merlin, a mysterious sorcerer bound by a curse to serve as a familiar. With the witch’s death by Arthur’s hand, the spell now ties Merlin’s fate to Arthur’s—making him a dangerous liability in a kingdom where magic is outlawed.

    OR… Merlin accidentally becomes magically bonded to Prince Arthur. Now, Arthur must hide his magic and Merlin's magic from Uther, all while Camelot's future is threatened.

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    Three monumental things happened in 1990:

    Firstly, Fleamont and Euphemia Potter put their foot down and forced their son James to marry a witch they approved of.

    Secondly, Albus Dumbledore decided to try one last time to hire a Divination Professor.

    Thirdly, a witch called Lily Evans developed a counter for the Imperius Curse.

    But as far as Harry Evans was concerned, nearly two decades later and half a world away, none of these events had anything to do with his life. He was just trying to get by as an Ilvermorny graduate and single teen father in a dangerous world. He’s got bigger problems than magical civil wars on the other side of the planet.

    Albus Dumbledore, however, would disagree. With the resurrection of the Dark Lord Voldemort, all eyes have turned to a prophecy predicting a wizard who would be the Dark Lord’s downfall. The nation’s hopes rested on James Potter’s son Nate, famous for surviving the unsurvivable and killing the Dark Lord as a baby seventeen years previously. But as the only person to have heard the full prophecy, Dumbledore was uncertain. And his search for the real savior keeps drawing him back to a little boy everyone assumed was a squib.

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    14 Jun 2025

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  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    What if Balinor had returned a couple of years after he left? What if Merlin had grown up with a father, knowing more about magic and Uther’s actions? What if he was more than happy to see Uther dead, so long as his destiny was fulfilled?

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    Merlin grows up hating Uther and is more than happy to ignore the dragon and his yapping about his destiny.

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    I will add any trigger warnings here but since I have no idea how this story will go I will try to keep all topics somewhat light but still realistic as I can. Feel free to comment if you think any trigger warnings should be added!

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    17 Sep 2025

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